Hip-hop culture through media technologies, historical examination of the hip-hop mixtape economy, and analysis of the “Crank Dat” online dance craze.
CMS grad students Kevin Driscoll and Josh Diaz’s chiptunes study featured on BoingBoing’s Offworld
“Transformative Works has devoted its latest issue to the subject of games, and chief amongst its best pieces is MIT students Kevin Driscoll and Joshua Diaz’s exhaustive look at the history and rise of the chiptune genre.”
Video and podcast: “Film Music and Digital Media”
The widespread adoption of computer-based methods of digital recording technology has profoundly changed film scoring practices around the globe, not least in Hollywood.
Dub, Diasporas & Digital: Vivek Bald
From dub music to South Asian Diasporas, to political theory and a PhD in American Studies, and onto digital media – the colorful professional trajectory of Vivek Bald has led him from his former base in New York to MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program.
MIT Director Jay Scheib in New York Times
“Directed by Jay Scheib, ‘Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre’s 20th Century’ is based on the band’s 2007 album of the same title.”
New Potentials for “Independent” Music: Social Networks, Old and New, and the Ongoing Struggles to Reshape the Music Industry
The evolving nature of independent music practices in the context of offline and online social networks.
Podcast: Michael Cuthbert, “Ambiguity, Process, and Information Content in Minimal Music”
Showing how simple minimalist processes give rise to highly ambiguous structures, while many of the most complex moments are reducible to easier to comprehend processes.
